poor visibility

brendan · 01-25-09, 02:15 AM

during my last patrol, i had no contact (even on the rockall bank). I decided to go home through the irish sea. the weather was rough, i found some merchants off liverpool, but visibility was so low that i coudn't see them until 250 meters. couldn't even get a solution from the watch officer. i got too close to a large merchant, fired 2 torpedoes blind (both bounced off at 200 m) and the he blew both my periscopes off and killed my whole watch crew. then i gave up and headed home. anyone have any techniques or advice?

Weiss Pinguin · 01-25-09, 02:29 AM

During poor weather you can stay submerged (When oxygen and battery capacity allow) and use your hydrophones to detect any ships in the area. 'Blind' underwater attacks, where you rely solely on your hydrophones, are possible, but much more difficult than a normal visual attack. (A tutorial on hydrophone hunting can be found here)

Beyond that... I'm not really sure there's a whole lot you can do, except hope for clear weather or go hunting elsewhere. :hmm: Foul weather eliminates any chance of using the deck gun, and the flak gun is all but useless against a merchant, provided you can even man the flak gun in poor weather...

UberTorpedo · 01-25-09, 02:53 AM

brendan,

Here's some other hydrophone hunting tutorials you might find interesting.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...7821098535/p/1
and
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=110619

The video (U42HydroHunt.exe) for both posts has also been uploaded to my Filefront. See link under my sig

cheers

Lzs von swe · 01-25-09, 10:02 AM

When, and if, I decide to attack in that kind of weather I plot the ships course as precise as possible and get myself positioned ahead and on the same "line".
Let the ship overtake you, and hope it´s not just a fishing boat

, staying some 50-100m to the side on parallel course.
Set your torpedoes to magnetic pistol and fire them when the ship is closing to 300m ahead of you, almost out of sight.
But if it´s some 15m/s wind and heavy sea I don´t bother, too big risk of waisting
expensive torpedoes.

Faamecanic · 01-25-09, 11:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lzs von swe

When, and if, I decide to attack in that kind of weather I plot the ships course as precise as possible and get myself positioned ahead and on the same "line".
Let the ship overtake you, and hope it´s not just a fishing boat

, staying some 50-100m to the side on parallel course.
Set your torpedoes to magnetic pistol and fire them when the ship is closing to 300m ahead of you, almost out of sight.
But if it´s some 15m/s wind and heavy sea I don´t bother, too big risk of waisting
expensive torpedoes.

Thats what I do

What was frustrating was SH3 weather being 15 m/s and rain for more than a MONTH on end...

GWX 3.0 solves that

If your not playing with GWX brendan..,.. then your missing half the game! Reccomend you download and install immediately.

A Very Super Market · 01-25-09, 12:10 PM

3.0 has the new enviroment that makes it even harder to see at night, so..... Good luck! :rotfl:

01-25-09, 02:15 AM	#1
brendan Seaman Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 32 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	poor visibility during my last patrol, i had no contact (even on the rockall bank). I decided to go home through the irish sea. the weather was rough, i found some merchants off liverpool, but visibility was so low that i coudn't see them until 250 meters. couldn't even get a solution from the watch officer. i got too close to a large merchant, fired 2 torpedoes blind (both bounced off at 200 m) and the he blew both my periscopes off and killed my whole watch crew. then i gave up and headed home. anyone have any techniques or advice?

01-25-09, 02:29 AM	#2
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	During poor weather you can stay submerged (When oxygen and battery capacity allow) and use your hydrophones to detect any ships in the area. 'Blind' underwater attacks, where you rely solely on your hydrophones, are possible, but much more difficult than a normal visual attack. (A tutorial on hydrophone hunting can be found here) Beyond that... I'm not really sure there's a whole lot you can do, except hope for clear weather or go hunting elsewhere. :hmm: Foul weather eliminates any chance of using the deck gun, and the flak gun is all but useless against a merchant, provided you can even man the flak gun in poor weather... __________________

01-25-09, 02:53 AM	#3
UberTorpedo Planesman Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern California Posts: 194 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	brendan, Here's some other hydrophone hunting tutorials you might find interesting. http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...7821098535/p/1 and http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=110619 The video (U42HydroHunt.exe) for both posts has also been uploaded to my Filefront. See link under my sig cheers __________________ Download Link for Mods and Other Goodies...

01-25-09, 10:02 AM	#4
Lzs von swe Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Norrkoping, Sweden Posts: 1,074 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	When, and if, I decide to attack in that kind of weather I plot the ships course as precise as possible and get myself positioned ahead and on the same "line". Let the ship overtake you, and hope it´s not just a fishing boat , staying some 50-100m to the side on parallel course. Set your torpedoes to magnetic pistol and fire them when the ship is closing to 300m ahead of you, almost out of sight. But if it´s some 15m/s wind and heavy sea I don´t bother, too big risk of waisting expensive torpedoes. __________________

01-25-09, 12:10 PM	#6
A Very Super Market The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Deep in the Wild Canadian suburbs. Posts: 1,468 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	3.0 has the new enviroment that makes it even harder to see at night, so..... Good luck! :rotfl: __________________ The entire German garrison of Vanviken, right here in your thread!